Business Panel

Adapting Japanese content for an American Audience

Date: December 15th, 2012
Time: 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm (includes Networking Event)
Location: Loews Hotel Hollywood – Solano Canyon Room
The Solano Canyon Room is located on the Mezzanine Level of the hotel, floor “M” on the Hotel Elevators.
Address: 1755 North Highland Avenue Hollywood, CA 90028
Parking: Hotel Valet Parking for the day is $15 for up to 4 hours or $20 for up to 10 hours. You may also self-park in the Hollywood & Highland parking garage for $10.

Theme: What works? Bringing Japanese IP to Hollywood

4 professionals in the field of bringing Japanese IP to Hollywood have been invited as panelists and will discuss about the current situation, the challenges, and most importantly, the opportunities in this area. Topics will include remakes, co-production, and localization (voice overs and sub-titles).

PANELISTS

Roy Lee

Producer, Vertigo Entertainment

Producer Roy Lee established the Hollywood based production company, Vertigo Entertainment, in 2001 with Doug Davison. He earned his first motion picture producing credit as Executive Producer on Gore Verbinski’s 2002 blockbuster “The Ring.” He went on to Executive Produce the 2004 “The Grudge,” which starred Sarah Michelle Gellar and was based on the 2000 Japanese thriller, “Ju-On,” directed by Takashi Shimizu. In October 2006, Roy was Executive Producer of “The Departed,” a crime thriller at Warner Bros., directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio. It was Scorsese’s highest grossing film and went on to win multiple Academy Awards including “Best Picture.”

Kelly C. Crabb

Entertainment Lawyer, Sheppard Mullin

Kelly Crabb is a partner in the Media, Entertainment and Technology Group, resident in the firm’s Los Angeles office. His practice emphasizes clients with an entertainment, sports, and media focus and includes a mix of sophisticated and complex financing, production, and content work for substantial U.S., Asian, and European companies. His practice areas include motion pictures, television, Internet, video games, print publishing and other content production, financing, distribution and exhibition; music business contracts; commercial endorsements and advertising; live events; content rights acquisition and licensing; corporate mergers and acquisitions and joint venture transactions; and matters related to the entertainment and music performance guilds.

MODERATOR